The world is getting more complicated. It sounds like a good idea, but some people mignt have trouble finding a partner if it gets out they have some dodgy genes.
Your genetic code will remain confidential, and the app will only warn you of a bad match.
"About 5 percent of children are born with a severe genetic disease, and so that means you're compatible with about 95 percent of people," Church said on "60 Minutes." "We're just adding this [tool] to all the other dating criteria."
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Julia Naftulin - A Harvard geneticist is creating a dating app that matches users based on DNA, and people are worried it's eugenics
It's not eugenics.
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Is an old love blooming again?
ReplyDelete• “Julia Naftulin ― A Harvard geneticist is creating a dating app that matches users based on DNA, and people are worried it’s eugenics.” This is the title of a post on a blog that claims to be “An economics, investment, trading and policy blog with a focus on Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). We seek the truth, avoid the mainstream and are virulently anti-neoliberalism.”
https://mikenormaneconomics.blogspot.com/2020/01/julia-naftulin-harvard-geneticist-is.html
• On YouTube, one Amazing Polly claims that Mr. Epstein sponsored Harvard geneticists. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XposZwIYoNE&t=485s
• The New York Times shows a photo documenting that Mr. Epstein and Harvard economist Larry Summers were best buddies.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/business/jeffrey-epstein-bill-gates.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
• If you think that makes Larry Summers persona non grata in the American Economic Association you are mistaken. On a Tweet, he features prominently on the panel of economic authorities at #ASSA2020.
https://twitter.com/DavidBeckworth/status/1213859426882355200
This is a bit spooky when one considers that the economist Malthus inspired Darwin and that Keynes was Director of the British Eugenics Society 1937-1944.#1
Egmont Kakarot-Handtke
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https://mises.org/wire/keynes-eugenics-race-and-population-control
“Survival of the fittest!!!”
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